In August we noticed a black rabbit hopping around the site at work.  A notice was put out asking if anyone had lost a bunny, but no one replied.

To start with, it looked as though it had integrated with the wild rabbits but after some reading and some watching it was obvious that he was out on his own.  He seemed to disappear for about 3 weeks but then we saw him again in the car park – not the safest place for any bunny!  To my surprise as I approached him, he hopped over and looked in my hand for food.  We decided he was hungry and started to leave him some food in the undergrowth where he appeared to be living.

After seeing him a few times and happily eating out of my hand, we decided to seek approval for capture and re-homing.  The re-homing was easy, I decided to keep him!  The capture not so easy!  I had built up some trust as he would spot me offering food and bound 4-5 hops to come and see me, but he didn’t seem to like being stroked so instead of breaking the trust I had gained, I carried on offering food.

We had put hay in an area where we knew he sat and had seen him sat munching it.  So we replaced the hay with a cat box full of hay and a little carrot hoping that he would go in.  We knew he had ventured in as the carrot had gone! The only problem we had was being in the right place at the right time to shut the door!

On a Monday after work, we waited next to the cat box with string at the ready to close the door. He was over the other side of the hedge on the grass so I went over with a bit of carrot to say hello.  He excitedly hopped over to get his treat.  Walking back over to the box I asked him to follow and amazingly, he did! Poking his head in the box for carrot, he finally went fully in the box and we pulled the string! He stamped his foot once then settled down for his journey home.

‘Lucky’ is now happily living with me, to start with in a pen in the kitchen while his hutch was renovated!! Give a Dad a hutch and they turn it into a mansion!  He has now settled in and likes to run around on the kitchen floor and is happy to be stroked but not picked up, so a little more work needs to be done before he has a trip to the vets.  We still don’t know if he’s a boy or a girl! But he has a great friendly personality and is very intelligent and tidy, rearranging his hutch all the time! I have plans to find him a bunny friend for company in the future 🙂